Recent French history has shown the contradictions between governmental immigration policies and the increasing mobilisation of foreign workers. They are demanding rights. And are on strike to get them.

Arnaud Elfort and Guillaume Schaller from the Survival Group have photographed these spaces that have been built to exclude in the new city. European Alternatives went to ask them about their initiative.

The Polish Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman reflects on the Social Democrats’ need to reassert the protective power of the State – this time through global institutions.ial democrats need to reassert the protective power of the state – this time through global institutions.

Poverty must increasingly be understood as a problem of democracy as well as equality. Only in that way can the most paralysing effects of capitalism be understood as problems of autonomy.

Sandro Mezzadra discusses the transnational experience of contemporary migrations, pointing to the necessity of a new interpretative paradigm in order to photograph the contemporary economic, political, and cultural inderdependences.

Migration is widely recognised as the crucial worldwide political issue for the coming century, and there is no area of politics which in which it does not enter.

This is a synthesis of “Spotlight on Policy Coherence”, a 2009 report which is has been written by Concord with the intention of forming the baseline for future analyses of the positive and negative impacts of (in)coherent EU policies on the ground.

Yesterday (Sept 2nd) in Paris, the floor of one of the main ‘institutional elite universities’ (Sciences-Po Paris) has been taken by feminists for 2.30 hours of lively debates, in an amphitheatre packed with young men and women (almost equally represented) and a few older and persistent feminists.

Immigrants in Greece exist everywhere, but no one knows where. No one talks about them. They are ignored. The Greek policy makers remember them when they talk about criminality and the perils of social instability.

European history indeed sadly proves that economic depression can lead to tragic social exclusion, hatred, violence and persecution.